PC Tech Zone has posted a review on Microsofts Dungeon Siege.

Role Playing Games have taken many guises over a good few years. From the humble beginings of table top games that involved maps and lead figures, Character sheets and a good few dice, not forgetting the players and a games master or dungeon keeper. Everyone sitting around the room taking up valiant quests against hordes of demons, dragons and other unknown entities.

Then we started to see the Dungeons & Dragons games popping up on early computers. The Commodore 64 and Spectrum 48k. The loading times on these were really poor if you only had a tape drive but alot of them were only available on the five and a quarter disks. Then we started to see the likes of the Monkey Island series and the Maniac Mansion series, where you had a basic point & click adventure where all the commands were at the bottom of the screen.

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